Author: Mary Sergeant Gove NICHOLS
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Category : Hydrotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Jane M. Adams
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719098068
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It argues that demand for healing rather than leisure drove the growth of a number of inland resorts which became renowned for expertise and treatment facilities. These aspects were actively marketed to doctors and patients. It assesses the influence of these centres on broader patterns of resort development, leisure and sociability in Britain. The study explores ideas about water’s healing potential and the varied ways it was used to maintain good health and treat a variety of illnesses. Water cures were endorsed by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners and attracted growing numbers of patients into the twentieth century. It examines how institutions and skilled workers shaped the development of specialist resorts and considers why the NHS support for spa treatment declined from the 1960s.

Author: Wendy Hayden
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809331020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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In Evolutionary Rhetoric, scholar Wendy Hayden provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between scientific and feminist rhetorics in free-love feminism, studying the movement from its inception in the 1850s to its dark turn toward eugenics in the early 1900s. Hayden organizes her provocative study by scientific discipline—evolution, physiology, bacteriology, embryology, and heredity. Each chapter explores how free-love feminists adopted the evidence of that discipline in their arguments for increased sex education, women’s sexual rights, reproductive freedom, and the abolition of a marriage system that repressed the rights and the sexuality of women. Hayden takes our conventional understanding of the relationship between nineteenth-century feminism and science and expands it. The author provides examples of the powerful words of free-love feminists to show exactly how these exceptional women used science as a rhetorical platform to promote feminist, and often radical, social reforms. Considering why the free-love movement has not yet been studied, Hayden also discusses how the recovery of this movement may impact larger goals in the recovery of women’s rhetoric. This important and timely study of a long-forgotten movement adds to our understanding of the complexities of the history of feminism.

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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: William Gregory
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Category : Animal magnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876089
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood. In a new preface, the author surveys recent scholarship and comments on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades. Despite extraordinary advances, she concludes, women physicians continue to grapple with many of the issues that troubled their predecessors.

Author: Thomas Low Nichols
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Thomas Low Nichols
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Thomas Low Nichols
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338543078X
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Languages : en
Pages : 98

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